What I Want for CES

What would I want for my surgery?

If you were to have an operation tomorrow, would you want your surgical team members to feel comfortable speaking up, to defy hierarchy, to interact with each other just as well as they perform technical aspects of the procedure? Would you want to feel like part of the team? Your answers to these admittedly leading questions are based on the culture of the surgical team and the interdependence ...

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How Similar is What I Get to What I Want: Matchmaking for Mobility Support

We introduce matchmaking as a speci c setting for similarity assessment. While in many domains similarity is assessed between pairs of entities with equal status, in matchmaking there exists a source request which triggers search for the most similar set of available entities. We describe a speci c scenario where elderly people request support or companionship for outdoor activities in the neig...

‘What I Want and What You Want’: Children’s Thinking about Competing Personal Preferencessode_589

This study examined how children reason about competing personal preferences. Seventy-two participants (mean ages 5 years 5 months, 10 years 4 months, and 17 years 7 months) considered three hypothetical scenarios in which a protagonist’s personal preference was in conflict with her or his friend’s personal preference. Scenarios varied in the relative weightiness of each character’s desires. Wh...

What Do I Want and When Do I Want It: Brain Correlates of Decisions Made for Self and Other

A number of recent functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) studies on intertemporal choice behavior have demonstrated that so-called emotion- and reward-related brain areas are preferentially activated by decisions involving immediately available (but smaller) rewards as compared to (larger) delayed rewards. This pattern of activation was not seen, however, when intertemporal choices were ...